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I'm about to engage in a small amount of holiday shopping.

If you make or sell things that you think would make good holiday gifts, I'd like to hear about them.

Please respond to this post. I'll boost stuff. It'll be great.

I wish I could find some decent VCRs for sale.

I'd love to give many of the people in my life a VCR.

One like this, or possibly even clunkier.

(I don't *need* an a toploader. I have a really wonderful HDMI upscaling VCR that I really love and use at least once a month.

But I'd love to get a beautiful old TV and a toploading VCR.)

(I need to get someone to adjust the yoke on my predicta, but I'd also really love a nice looking color TV.)

Oh! There was a bluray reissue of the Cartoon that should not exist: orbitdvd.com/products/toxic-cr

(sadly out of stock from my video store of choice.)

www.orbitdvd.comToxic Crusaders: The Series

My little brother already has a VCR, which I may have given him in the past, or he may have acquired on his own. My memory is hazy.

So I'm getting him a couple of VHS tapes.

Specifically, I'm giving him some Dragon Ball Z OVA VHS tapes.

Were any of the Dragon Ball (pre-Z) movies any good? I've never seen them!

I think I saw blood rubies when I was a kid? I think that's the one I'll get.

Okay, I found some VCRs at a price I was willing to pay and got a couple.

I also got some Dragon Ball VCDs, and I will endevor to discover what the most modern and commonly available device is that can play VCDs. Is it a console? Is it a bluray player? DVD player? PC? We'll find out.

Paul Riismandel

@ajroach42 most new inexpensive DVD players at discount stores and elsewhere play VCDs. Often had for $25 or less.

@mediageek @ajroach42 Most DVD players from the early 2000s could play VCDs. SVCD support was spotty, though. Seems like the kind of feature they'd be unlikely to remove.

Watched many a pirated S/VCD reencode of a DVD before I had a DVD writer.

@ieure @mediageek looks like DVD players can pretty universally and bluray players cannot.

@ajroach42 @ieure I suspect the DVD players are using the same chipset, which has been around a while, designed to accommodate the popularity of VCDs in a lot of markets during that slow transition to DVDs. It's interesting that I have a Sony DVD changer recently acquired at a thrift store, from ca. 2005, and it supports VCDs, too.